Two Women Against the Wind: A Tierra del Fuego Bicycling Adventure

Editions:Paperback - First Editon: $ 12.95

ISBN:9781934199114Pages:118

“Who the hell had this idea anyway?” Seventy mile-an-hour winds greeted Réanne Hemingway-Douglass and her friend Katherine Wells as they wheeled their bicycles off the Strait of Magellan ferry. The two women planned to cycle 300 miles across Tierra del Fuego, from Porvenir, in the north, to Ushuaia, in the south. But as the gusts slammed them sideways, even the even the three- mile ride from the ferry landing to Porvenir seemed doubtful. This book is Réanne’s gritty account of their adventure: two middle-aged women pedaling—and sometimes pushing—heavily laden bicycles into wind, rain and